'It was kind of like a religious conversion'

Stephen Tindale, former director of Greenpeace UK, explaining that he and other leading environmentalists now back nuclear power because of the urgent need to curb carbon dioxide emissions (The Independent, London, 23 February)

"My family believe my brother was murdered."

David Fielding, whose brother was one of 2000 British people with haemophilia who died after being given blood contaminated with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s and 80s. Fielding gave evidence at an independent inquiry into the incident, which released its report this week (The Scotsman, Edinburgh, UK, 22 February)

"This was a digital rights grab."

Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington DC, which had planned to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's change to its contract with users, which appeared to give it perpetual ownership of their contributions. Facebook reversed the changes on ...

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